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Textile factory. Any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in preparing, etc., wool, cotton, etc. [Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, s. 149 (1)]. See FACTORY....
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Bleaching and Dyeing
Bleaching and Dyeing. These works were at first regulated by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 78; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 8; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 38; and 27 &28 Vict. c. 98. By 33 & 34 Vict. c. 62, however, all these Acts are repealed after January 1, 1872, and the (English) Factory Acts made to apply to them; and they are now regulated, along with other factories, by the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22). By Schedule VI., bleaching and dyeing works are a non-textile factory and are defined as 'any premises in which the process of bleaching, beetling, dyeing, calendering, finishing, hooking, lapping, and making up and packing any yarn or cloth of any material or the dressing or finishing of lace or any one or more of such processes or any process incidental thereto are or is carried on.' S. 28 deals with hours of employment; s. 40 deals with mealtimes; and s. 53 with overtime employment. See FACTORY....
Dyeing and bleaching works
Dyeing and bleaching works, are non-textile factories' within the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY....
Foundries
Foundries. Places in which the process of founding or casting metal is carried on, 'except any premises in which such process is carried on by not more than five persons and a subsidiary to the repair or completion of some other work,' are regulated as 'non-textile factories' by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY....
Laundry
Laundry. By s. 1 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c.39), there are included in the list of non-textile factories and workshops within the meaning of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7,c. 22):-(29) Laundries carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, or carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to be purposes of any public institution.The Act further controls the period of employment of women in laundries (s. 2) and also contains other regulations (ss. 3 and 4) for their proper management.Sending infected articles which have not been properly disinfected or without proper notice to laundries, private or public, is prohibited by Public Health Act,1936, s. 152....
Quarry
Quarry. As any place, not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals, quarries are comprised in the list of non-textile factories and workshops given in Part II. of Sched. VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY. They are also subjected to inspection under the Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Board of Trade by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 50. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Mines and Quarries.'As a noun the term 'quarry' has been defined as the spot where rock is quarried....an excavation or other place from which stone is taken by cutting, blasting or the like. It is open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate or limestone, Labour Inspector v. Chittapur Stone Quarrying Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1177: (1972) 3 SCC 605: (1973) 1 SCR 83....
Glass
Glass. By the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 81(1), every person who steals or with intent to steal breaks any glass belonging to any building, shall be guilty of a felony punishable as in the case of simple larceny.By (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4, c. 68), s. 1, a carrier is not liable for loss or damage above 10l. unless such glass has been declared and an increased charge accepted.As to deposit in streets and the power of making byelaws to prevent such a nuisance, see (English) Highways Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 72; (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76), s. 16; Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39Vict. c. 55), s. 171; (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28. (English) Under Factories and Workshops Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), 'Glass works' is a non-textile factory; see ss. 40, 78, regarding meals and meal-times in such works; as to night employment of persons of fourteen and...
Print works
Print works. Any premises in which any persons are employed to print figures, patterns, or designs upon any cotton, linen, woolen, worsted, or silken yarn, or upon any woven or felted fabric not being paper: placed first on the list of 'non-textile factories,' and regulated as such by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), 'letter-press print works' being in the same list (Sch. Vi.) described separately as 'any premises in which the process of letter-press printing is carried on....
Tobacco
Tobacco. The growth of tobacco was formerly prohibited in any part of the United Kingdom, and any person growing it was liable to a penalty of 10l. for every rood grown, recoverable by penal action. See 12 Car. 2, c. 34 (the preamble of which shows the origin of the prohibition to have been the protection and maintenance of the colonies and plantations in America, and of the commerce of this country with them); 15 Car. 2, c. 7; and the (English) Tobacco Cultivation Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 13). As to Ireland the Irish Tobacco Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 3), largely removed the restrictions as to growth, etc., and similar provision is now made for Scotland and England by the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, which repeals the two Acts of Charles II. and the Act of 1831, and by s. 83 (5) entirely removes all prohibition or restraint on the growth, making, or curing of tobacco in England and Scotland, and to the same time imposes [s. 83 (2)] an excise duty of 5s. for a licence to grow, cultivate...
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